Word: feared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to build better segregated parks and schools was only perpetuating what they were fighting to end: Jim Crowism. It was probably a valid conclusion. Many white Southerners were working unselfishly to reduce the Negro's squalor, illiteracy and ill-health, to end his disenfranchisement and ease his fear of violence. Perhaps a majority of these same Southerners still insisted that segregation was an institution that must not be changed...
...industry-wide jitters stemmed from the fear that the public, expecting color TV in the near future, might stop buying black & white sets. According to Du-Mont's Dr. Allen B. DuMont, the present color converters are expensive, and so complicated that, if color telecasts began tomorrow, every set now in use would have to go to a factory for proper installation. All in all, the industry wished the subject had not come...
Last month, the News broke Petit's exposé under Page One headlines: RACKETS THRIVE WITHOUT FEAR; WHO GETS THE PAYOFFS? Don Petit's story was detailed enough to make even blasé Miamians take notice. It listed the addresses and telephone numbers of bookie joints, houses of prostitution and numbers-game headquarters. And it flatly charged that these rackets were operating with the connivance of the Miami police, who were paid off with "ice money," i.e., graft...
...minded about bigness . . . He has said he would rather see a thousand insurance companies with assets of $4,000,000 than one company with assets of $4 billion . . . a hundred steel companies instead of U.S. Steel. This is pure nostalgia for the horse & buggy days of business, plus a fear that while bigness may be economically good, it is socially...
About 25 years later, Henry's philosopher brother, William, saw an image of "a black-haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic [like a] sculptured Egyptian cat or Peruvian mummy, moving nothing but his black eyes . . ." William turned into "a mass of quivering fear" at the thought that "That shape am I. . . potentially," and wondered how people could live "so unconscious of the pit of insecurity beneath the surface of life...